Plasmodium vivax survey data now available for download from our Data Explorer

Survey data on G6PDd, sickle cell and Duffy negativity can now be visualised and downloaded from our Data Explorer at http://www.map.ox.ac.uk/explorer/#EntityPlace:G6PD, http://www.map.ox.ac.uk/explorer/#EntityPlace:HbS and http://www.map.ox.ac.uk/explorer/#EntityPlace:Duffy.

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has published its 2013 World Malaria Report, which includes national malaria maps for endemic African and Asian countries generated by the Malaria Atlas Project. The Malaria Atlas Project worked with the WHO to combine the latest incidence data with estimated prevalence to produce a suite of malaria risk maps, and to combine data on malaria species to produce maps of the ratio of P. falciparum to P. vivax infections that highlight regions where P. vivax is the major cause of malaria.

A News Focus article in Science, 'The Forgotten Malaria', discusses Plasmodium vivax malaria in the context of the spatial distribution and population at risk defined by the Malaria Atlas Project.

Thanks to a $1.5M grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, a consortium led by the Malaria Atlas Project group at the University of Oxford will build a new platform to model and continually update the geographical distribution of infectious diseases globally. The new platform aims to advance the field of disease mapping by combining the latest advances in spatial modelling with methods pioneered by HealthMap to capture disease outbreak data from the World Wide Web as it becomes available. The partners in this collaboration are the University of Oxford, Boston Children’s Hospital and Microsoft Research.

Malaria-Eliminating Country Briefings for 2013 have been released, providing thorough yet concise summaries of the current and historical malaria situations in each of the eliminating countries

Simon Hay, co-founder of MAP, has been elected the 52nd President of the UK's Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (RSTMH). Founded in 1907, the RSTMH exists to promote the study, control and prevention of diseases in man and other animals in the tropics and sub-tropics, on behalf of its fellowship of over 1000 professional members.

The 2012 World Malaria Report has been published by the World Health Organization (WHO), including maps of malaria endemicity in African countries produced by the Malaria Atlas Project in collaboration with the WHO.

An Atlas of Health and Climate is released by the World Health Organization and the World Meteorological Organization as the product of a unique collaboration between the meteorological and public health communities. Data on temperature suitability for malaria transmission were provided by the Malaria Atlas Project and our Spatial Ecology & Epidemiology Group colleagues provided data on dengue distribution and risk.

Recruiting five new posts. The Spatial Ecology and Epidemiology Group (SEEG) in Oxford is expanding and we are looking to recruit five new team members (four postdoctoral, one postgraduate) across various aspects of our research agenda.

Population data is now available from AsiaPop. In addition to 100m spatial resolution estimated population distribution datasets for eight Asian countries in 2010 and 2015, details of the project background, methods and input datasets are provided on the site. Please note that the datasets are an early version and will be updated in the coming months as improved settlement mapping is undertaken, more detailed and contemporary population data are acquired and new mapping approaches are developed. Three papers have recently been published that provide background information, as well as AfriPop details and analyses:

A new alpha version of Africa-wide population datasets is now freely available from the AfriPop project website. These new datasets provide estimates of the distribution of children under five years old and women of child-bearing age for each 1km grid square across Africa for the years 2000, 2005, 2010 and 2015.

A global map of Plasmodium falciparum endemicity is launched. The Malaria Atlas Project presents a series of maps describing the global distribiution of Plasmodium falciparum risk and spatial estimates of entomological innoculation rate and reproductive number.

New web portal launched. Find over 1,800 products using our Resource Browser, including estimates of populations at malaria risk, mosquito distributions and bionomics, and maps of malaria endemicity.

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